Clive Cussler · 2008 · sea

Clive Cussler's 2008 Dirk Pitt adventure. A lab explosion, a string of deaths in British Columbia and a US-Canada crisis all point to a rare mineral that could halt global warming - one traced to Sir John Franklin's ships, lost in the Northwest Passage in 1848. Pitt follows the trail into the Canadian Arctic, racing rival killers to the frozen secret of the ice.

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   British Columbia

   On the coast of British Columbia, a string of deaths and a destroyed lab draw Dirk Pitt and his children into a hunt for a mineral that could reverse global warming - and into a crisis pushing the US and Canada toward war.

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   The Northwest Passage

   The trail leads north into the ice-choked maze of the Northwest Passage, where control of the mineral has become a matter of nations - and where Pitt and Giordino navigate the frozen archipelago with ruthless enemies hunting them.

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   King William Island

   Off King William Island, in the icy grave where Franklin's ships Erebus and Terror vanished in 1848, lies the secret of the mineral - and Pitt must reach it before the killers do, or the world will lose its one chance to heal.